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Liquid crystal display panel having a thin-film transistor array for displaying a high quality picture

Assignee: NEC Electronics Corp
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Filing: 1988-05-06
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Granted: 1990-10-23
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Expires: 2008-05-06
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Abstract

Abstract An LCD panel includes a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed on an insulating substrate in rows and columns, and a plurality of drain buses and gate buses formed is a space between the pixel electrodes, the drain buses having portions operating as a drain electrode, the gate buses having branches operating as a gate electrode and each of the pixel electrodes having a side portion to form a thin-film transistor with the portion of the drain buses and the branch of the gate buses, the positions of the side portions of the pixel electrodes in the rows being changed in adjacent pixel electrodes and repeated in the rows and the positions of the pixel electrodes in the columns being changed in adjacent pixel electrodes and repeated in the columns.

Inventors

  • 👤 Kesao Noguchi

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —
Jurisdiction US
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-10-29 14:19
CPC Classifications
G; G02; G02F; G02F1/00; G02F1/01; G02F1/13; G02F1/133; G02F1/136; G02F1/1362; G02F1/1368; G02F1/1333; G02F1/1335; G02F1/133509; G02F1/133514

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 10
Claim 1
Independent Claim 270 words
A thin-film transistor array for a liquid crystal display panel comprising: an insulating substrate; a plurality of pixel electrodes formed on said insulating substrate in two orthogonal directions, said pixel electrodes having source regions; a plurality of drain buses formed on said insulating substrate between said pixel electrodes in one of said orthogonal directions, each of said drain buses having a plurality of drain regions; a plurality of gate buses formed on said insulating substrate between said pixel electrodes in the other of said orthogonal directions, each of said gate buses having a plurality of branch gate regions; and a plurality of semiconductor films formed between said gate regions, said source regions and said drain regions to form therewith a plurality of thin-film transistors, of which some transistors extend along each of said gate buses and some transistors extend along each of said drain buses, wherein directions of the branch gate regions of the thin-film transistors which are formed along each of said gate buses are repeatedly changed from said one of said orthogonal directions to the other of said orthogonal directions and vice versa and changes being repeated with every first predetermined number of the film transistors formed along said each of said gate buses, and wherein directions of the branch gate regions of the thin-film transistors which are formed along each of said drain buses are repeatedly changed from said one of said orthogonal directions to the other of said orthogonal directions and vice versa and changes being repeated with every second predetermined number of the thin film transistors which are formed along each of said drain buses.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 270 words
A thin-film transistor array for a liquid crystal display panel comprising: an insulating substrate; a plurality of pixel electrodes formed on said insulating substrate in two orthogonal directions, said pixel electrodes having source regions; a plurality of drain buses formed on said insulating substrate between said pixel electrodes in one of said orthogonal directions, each of said drain buses having a plurality of drain regions; a plurality of gate buses formed on said insulating substrate between said pixel electrodes in the other of said orthogonal directions, each of said gate buses having a plurality of branch gate regions; and a plurality of semiconductor films formed between said gate regions, said source regions and said drain regions to form therewith a plurality of thin-film transistors, of which some transistors extend along each of said gate buses and some transistors extend along each of said drain buses, wherein directions of the branch gate regions of the thin-film transistors which are formed along each of said gate buses are repeatedly changed from said one of said orthogonal directions to the other of said orthogonal directions and vice versa and changes being repeated with every first predetermined number of the film transistors formed along said each of said gate buses, and wherein directions of the branch gate regions of the thin-film transistors which are formed along each of said drain buses are repeatedly changed from said one of said orthogonal directions to the other of said orthogonal directions and vice versa and changes being repeated with every second predetermined number of the thin film transistors which are formed along each of said drain buses.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 50 words
A thin-film transistor array for a liquid crystal display panel as claimed in claim 1, wherein said pixel electrodes are formed in a matrix form having rows and columns, said one of said orthogonal directions being a column direction, and the other of said orthogonal directions being a row direction.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 41 words
A thin-film transistor array for a liquid crystal display panel as claimed in claim 2, wherein each of said pixel electrodes has one of said thin-film transistors therein, said first predetermined number being two, and said second predetermined number being four.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 69 words
A thin-film transistor array for a liquid crystal display panel as claimed in claim 3, wherein each of said pixel electrodes has a square form having four sides, said one of said thin-film transistors in each pixel electrode being formed along one of said four sides of said pixel electrode, said one of said four sides having the same direction as said branch gate region of said thin-film transistor.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 76 words
A thin-film transistor array for a liquid crystal display panel as claimed in claim 1, wherein said pixel electrodes are disposed in a line in the other of said orthogonal directions and form a repetition group of said pixel electrodes for producing a red pixel, a blue pixel and a green pixel, the repetition groups provided in adjacent lines in the other of said orthogonal directions having a displacement of a half pitch of said repetition.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 27 words
A thin-film transistor array for a liquid crystal display panel as claimed in claim 5, wherein each of said pixel electrodes has two said thin-film transistors therein.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 33 words
A thin-film transistor array for a liquid crystal display panel as claimed in claim 6, wherein said two thin-film transistors formed in each of said pixel electrodes are driven by different gate buses.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim 55 words
A thin-film transistor array for a liquid crystal display panel as claimed in claim 6, wherein the branch gate region of one of said two thin-film transistors extends in said one of said orthogonal directions, the branch gate region of the other of said two thin-film transistors extending in the other of said orthogonal directions.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim 55 words
A thin-film transistor array for a liquid crystal display panel as claimed in claim 7, wherein the branch gate region of one of said two thin-film transistors extends in said one of said orthogonal directions, said branch gate region of the other of said two thin-film transistors extends in the other of said orthogonal directions.

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